A sonnet is a poem with fourteen lines of iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme scheme. The Italian sonnets were the first with the rhyme scheme: abba abba cde cde or abba abba cd cd cd. When the English picked up this poem style, they changed the rhyme scheme to abab cdcd efef gg. ... The rhyme scheme change also changed the structure from the Italian (octave and sestet) to the English (three quatrains and a couplet). ... This couplet shows the author's certainty. ...

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Sonnet 73 Shakespeare's sonnet # 73 is written in the Shakespearean sonnet style consisting of three quatrains and one couplet.Each quatrain,written in iambic pentameter has it's own rhyme scheme;rhyming in alternating lines.The couplet usually summarizes the preceeding twelve lines. ... The reader should be aware the couplet contains no images or comparisons, giving the verse a somber realistic foreboding end in which Shakespeare suggests that you, the reader, take note and comprehend what you have read ....

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In the poem "I sat belonely" the general rhyme pattern is that of standard crossed rhyme. John Lennon, the author wrote this entire sonnet in crossed rhyme with six quatrains which resembles an English sonnet except for the fact that it is twenty-four lines in length and does not end in a couplet. ... This is different from a Standard English sonnet due to the lack of a couplet which is the standard ending of most all English poems. ... Lennon wrote most all of his poems and sonnets in a manner consistent with that of children's poems purely for the entertainment value of listening to the...

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Casey Smigelski English Lit Sonnet Intrepretations Shakespear's Sonnet 18 When thinking about english liturature one of the greatest writers of all time comes to mind, WIlliam Shakespear. Shakespear was born on or around April 23, 1564 according to the record from the Holy Trinity. Although...

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